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Archives for January 2018

We all recognize that we have a health care crisis in America. But did you realize what has stepped up to try and fill the void, all the while continuing on the tradition of making a profit on the needy?

Crowd funding sites. Is this the fault of the sites and services themselves? Probably not, but it does paint a very unflattering picture of the American Health Care landscape.Continue Reading …

In this episode that’s heavy in video game and smartphone news: are music downloads dead; Facebook invents a new measurement of time (maybe spend more of that time working on fake news?); Facebook challenges Twitch with an eSports deal AND they are allowing fans of game streamers to give them money (the streamers, not Facebook -er, well, we know Facebook will get *some* of the money); big brother blizzard (thanks, Donovan) scoping out Overwatch videos for “bad actors”; more iPhone and Samsung news for 2018; a female Col. Sanders; Overwatch League; reboots abound and Burger King’s take on net neutrality.Continue Reading …

After another brief hiatus (Sam was under the weather last week), Sam and Donovan are back to talk about some tech news, TV shows, video games and more. From CES, LiFi — secure WiFi style connections from LEDS; Western Digital NAS drives have a backdoor, so patch them! Snapchat’s not doing so well; would you ride in a car that had no steering wheel or petals? Hawaii’s misguided missile alert (and why hasn’t this happened before?); more spectre/meltdown news from Google, AMD and Intel; Skype is testing encrypted one on one communications; chromecast or Google home could be screwing up your WiFi; the history of Age of Empires; Nintendo’s strange direct message and what’s coming next; the history of the Internet’s first “viral” video; Donovan talks Travelers and Sam talks The Greatest Showman!

Donovan provides statistics on how alcohol and smoking stack up against marijuana and exactly how marijuana became the hotly contested drug that it is today. From the banning of opium dens in San Francisco, to targeting segments of the American population, marijuana has gone from a drug that helps people to being used as a tool that incarcerates people.

It’s time to legalize marijuana nationwide and time for Jeff Sessions to go.Continue Reading …

Some housekeeping information that was initially shared at the beginning of episode 96, but some slight changes were made and it needed to get into the public RSS feed before episode 96 is made available to the general public.Continue Reading …